Make Sure You Score Big With Your Next New Hire Use Pre-employment Screening To Verify Credentials

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Make Sure You Score Big With Your Next New Hire Use Pre-employment Screening To Verify Credentials
     How many of you are sports fans out there? I happen to fall into the casual fan category. I like to watch the games and I know a little about my two favorite sports, football and baseball. On the other hand I’m not one of the fans who can quote every statistic about the team they love. What I do know is professional teams don’t just hire unknowns. Usually players are scouted out well in advance of any consideration for recruitment. This being said, wouldn’t it be great if an employer could hire their staff like the Pro’s scout and draft? You send scouts out, they watch the way your candidates perform. You sit in a room and watch tape of them to see for yourself how they did their job. Applicants go through skill tests to see just how they have mastered fundamental requirements for the position. We all know life doesn’t happen that way. Sometimes you can get lucky and run across someone doing their job and you try to steal them away for your own business but in general those are rare occasions. Usually you put out a job ad, get some applicants and take a chance on a few who “look good” on paper and you conduct interviews. Did they do well? Were you impressed at the answers they gave in response to our interview questions? You may not have a scout unit but a Pre-employment screening can be your scouting report on an applicant.
     A background check company has the ability to dig into a job candidate’s background information in order to help you know who it is you are contemplating bringing into your business. You may be able to read information from a job application or a resume but can you be sure what you are reading is truthful? There are people who fluff up their resumes with achievements they never really earned or exaggerate the scope of the work they did. Employee background checks are run by experienced professionals who have the tools that are needed to verify the information a candidate provides to you. Criminal convictions, driving records, education background and validation of social security numbers are a few of the items a pre-employment screening can properly clear. 
     Think about it like this, just because a baseball player says he bats .400, has a 1.92 ERA or can play multiple positions on the field, would you as a manager hire him on his word? Absolutely not, you might be interested in his story, you might even hear through word of mouth that he has these skill sets but you are going to do your homework. You send your scouts out to his games to watch him. When they think he may have the abilities he says he has you may invite him to spring try-outs for one more look. When everything pans out and the player’s words match his actions THEN you make an offer. As I pointed out, business owners don’t have scouts so what is the next best solution? Businesses can hire a background check company to be the scout on behalf of retailers and other business owners. Need someone who can manage your company social media platforms? You may want a candidate with a computer science degree or marketing degree from an accredited college or university. Pre-employment screening can validate education information entered on an application. Need an experienced Loss Prevention agent to fill an Asset Protection Manager opening? An Employee background check company can verify any employment history a prospective hire has listed on a resume. Do you remember to ask former employers if an employee is re-hirable? A company that does pre-employment screening doesn’t forget to ask such a critical question. Someone may have worked as an L.P. Agent, but were they released for something that would prevent them from being re-hired such as theft or violations of company policies?
     You may not be hiring to field a professional sports team but you certainly want a squad that you can trust and will keep you profitable. Don’t try to scout out the backgrounds of job prospects. Use a professional Background Check Company to help you hit home runs in your hiring decisions.
Need information on Pre-employment screening? Give us a call at 1.770.426.0547 now. 

How many of you are sports fans out there? I happen to fall into the casual fan category. I like to watch the games and I know a little about my two favorite sports, football and baseball. On the other hand I’m not one of the fans who can quote every statistic about the team they love. What I do know is professional teams don’t just hire unknowns. Usually players are scouted out well in advance of any consideration for recruitment. This being said, wouldn’t it be great if an employer could hire their staff like the Pro’s scout and draft? You send scouts out, they watch the way your candidates perform. You sit in a room and watch tape of them to see for yourself how they did their job. Applicants go through skill tests to see just how they have mastered fundamental requirements for the position. We all know life doesn’t happen that way. Sometimes you can get lucky and run across someone doing their job and you try to steal them away for your own business but in general those are rare occasions. Usually you put out a job ad, get some applicants and take a chance on a few who “look good” on paper and you conduct interviews. Did they do well? Were you impressed at the answers they gave in response to our interview questions? You may not have a scout unit but a Pre-employment screening can be your scouting report on an applicant.
     

A background check company has the ability to dig into a job candidate’s background information in order to help you know who it is you are contemplating bringing into your business. You may be able to read information from a job application or a resume but can you be sure what you are reading is truthful? There are people who fluff up their resumes with achievements they never really earned or exaggerate the scope of the work they did. Employee background checks are run by experienced professionals who have the tools that are needed to verify the information a candidate provides to you. Criminal convictions, driving records, education background and validation of social security numbers are a few of the items a pre-employment screening can properly clear. 
     

Think about it like this, just because a baseball player says he bats .400, has a 1.92 ERA or can play multiple positions on the field, would you as a manager hire him on his word? Absolutely not, you might be interested in his story, you might even hear through word of mouth that he has these skill sets but you are going to do your homework. You send your scouts out to his games to watch him. When they think he may have the abilities he says he has you may invite him to spring try-outs for one more look. When everything pans out and the player’s words match his actions THEN you make an offer. As I pointed out, business owners don’t have scouts so what is the next best solution? Businesses can hire a background check company to be the scout on behalf of retailers and other business owners. Need someone who can manage your company social media platforms? You may want a candidate with a computer science degree or marketing degree from an accredited college or university. Pre-employment screening can validate education information entered on an application. Need an experienced Loss Prevention agent to fill an Asset Protection Manager opening? An Employee background check company can verify any employment history a prospective hire has listed on a resume. Do you remember to ask former employers if an employee is re-hirable? A company that does pre-employment screening doesn’t forget to ask such a critical question. Someone may have worked as an L.P. Agent, but were they released for something that would prevent them from being re-hired such as theft or violations of company policies?
     

You may not be hiring to field a professional sports team but you certainly want a squad that you can trust and will keep you profitable. Don’t try to scout out the backgrounds of job prospects. Use a professional Background Check Company to help you hit home runs in your hiring decisions.

 

Need information on Pre-employment screening? Give us a call at 1.770.426.0547 now.